ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A grieving father has come forward to say his 7-year-old daughter was one of the two children killed in a crash along Interstate 25 on Tuesday morning.
Friends and family gathered at a South Valley park Wednesday night to remember Amariah Moya.
Joseph Moya told Albuquerque TV station KRQE that he was supposed to come into town from Utah this weekend to celebrate Easter with his daughter, but now he has to plan her funeral instead.
He said he got a call from his daughter’s aunt saying there was an emergency.
Moya said his daughter was in the car with her mother, her mother’s friend and three other children. Police said the driver was speeding when the car went airborne and crashed into a concrete barrier.
Amariah Moya and an infant boy died.
Her father has set up a GoFundMe to help pay for funeral arrangements for his daughter.
Police said criminal charges are pending for the driver, who remains hospitalized in critical condition.
They said another child passenger who was taken to the hospital after the crash also remains in critical condition.
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